Worldwide Charts and Sales

Here you can request and/or post absolutely any chart statistics you want - but particularly I'm thinking about ones that are relating to a particular artist. If you're wanting detailed info on the UK charts only, then check out Hanboo's "Chart Histories" thread - but for anything more general and global, please post it in here.

Now - can we end once and for all the threads requesting and/or posting either chart runs or sales figures about artists?

Future topics will be locked, and any requests made in them posted in here.

this is a CHART forum, and what we call charts only exist because records are sold, so talking about charts is to talk about sales. If the music industry was more "sincere", like in Japan, instead of only weekly chart positions we would see charts of real retail sales, and all we would talk about, when we would talk about charts would be about sales.. sales of a record, is, by the way, maybe the only OBJECTIVE aspect of this immense subject called music that can be discussed in a way to try to reach a definitive opinion about which everybody can agree, after all, numbers are numbers, and numbers aren't subject to individual tastes or opinions..

I don't see the problem of having a thread of sales for each artist, if i am interested in only one or two artists sales why should i be forced to search for data about those particular artist amidst maybe thousands sales numbers about who knows how many artists and countries? The only way to discuss sales (and then charts) is to separate each artist information, otherwise is simply not possible to discuss this topic in a way to reach a concrete portrait of an artist global popularity...and i didn't see anyone complaining about it, by the contrary...

i am interested in only one or two artists sales why should i be forced to search for data about those particular artist amidst maybe thousands sales numbers about who knows how many artists and countries?

Because if there are different topics for hundreds of different artists, the forum will be too full and all of the topics that are of interest to the rest of UKMIX (ie: not the chart geeks that never set foot outside the Chart Chat forum) will be lost among all the crap.

Yeah, it's definitely a very good idea Matthew, this has gotta be the forum I visit the least these days (bar Sport!) just because trawling through all the topics has become a bit of a nightmare since Dotmusic disappeared... So yeah, it should help tidy things up a lickle

Edu wrote:If i am interested in only one or two artists sales why should i be forced to search for data about those particular artist amidst maybe thousands sales numbers about who knows how many artists and countries?

Can I propose a counter-question to that?

If someone was only interested in the UK charts (with this being a UK site and all), why should they be forced to search through topics about countless different artists' worldwide charts and sales figures?

the name of this forum is "chart chat" and not "uk charts chat", only in the latter case i would understand that any thread about charts outside uk would be a bit out of scope (nobody commented what i said, charts are sales list without the sales, if we had access to the sales numbers would be useless to discuss charts, what would be discussed would be the sales, the position on a chart depends of arbitrary rules (see the difference between the hot 100 in US and the uk list) while sales are completely objective (at least, much more than a ordered list of songs)

Another thing Matthew, till now i only have a few posts because i'm starting and because i only post when i really believe i can give imformation that will be useful to interested persons, and if you had took a look at my posts we would see that i always give the source of my numbers, whatever i post can always be trusted almost 100%..i don't post only to raise my number of posts or to raise my position amongst posters with most posts

When i want to talk about music per itself i go to the forum in others sites where a specific artist work is discussed

the name of this forum is "chart chat" and not "uk charts chat", only in the latter case i would understand that any thread about charts outside uk would be a bit out of scope (nobody commented what i said, charts are sales list without the sales, if we had access to the ....

I come here mostly to read about Uk & European charts, no more no less...

And i wasn't coming the last few days because the Forum was flooded by petitions about artists. I like to read about that but come on... it was too much..